This nonsense will continue until the West deals with the Saudi source. The Wahibbi fundamentalist radicals who operate freely in Saudi Arabia are funding and motivating the world wide Islamic terror wave. The decadent royal Saudi family is terrified of them and the radicals do not bother them as long as they get funded and are allowed to operate.

Ah yes, a hostage situation for Obama to negotiate the release of someone such as the blind Sheik, whatever, whomever, and become a hero albeit belatedly...after the election, but still at a time he needs some buttressing of his approval numbers.

I despise cynicism, but it’s the results of too many years of them.

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posted on 01/16/2013 10:59:45 AM PST
by rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)

Who is the president? The One? Well then, this doesn't matter. Benghazi was only 4. This is only 8. Really, who cares? / By the way, I had a discussion with a neighbor who voted Obama. He didn't say it in so many words, but his point was, Benghazi was only 4 people, no big deal, didn't matter. That is what we're dealing with.

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posted on 01/16/2013 11:02:13 AM PST
by brownsfan
(Behold, the power of government cheese.)

A number of Americans are among 41 hostages seized by militants at a gas field in Algeria, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland confirmed on Wednesday, while declining to give the names, number or other details about those U.S. nationals "in order to protect their safety."

The hostage situation, described as a "terrorist attack" by Nuland, was unfolding at a gas operation in Amenas  a joint venture including oil giant BP, Norwegian oil firm Statoil and Algerian state company Sonatrach.

"The majority of those held are Algerian nationals," a senior U.S. official said earlier. Reuters also said that the number of U.S. citizens involved was 7, but Nuland declined to confirm the details.

SNIP

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posted on 01/16/2013 11:06:29 AM PST
by kristinn
(Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)

Latest: The hostage takers in Algeria are demanding the release of 100 Islamist prisoners, who should be taken they say to the northern Mali border, according to a worker present at the gas plant. SNIP

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posted on 01/16/2013 11:12:08 AM PST
by kristinn
(Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)

Don’t worry, Obama will trade the Blind Sheik and all the other Islamist prisoners for the Americans. Obama has been hoping for the opportunity to offer a prisoner exchange after the Benghazi plan didn’t work out so well. This time, they planned to take big bad oil workers instead of an ambassador in case it doesn’t turn out so well.

The MNLA are ethnic Tuareg Islamic militants who consider the northern half of Mali to be a separate Tuareg country called Azawad. They are fighting for a separate nation state.

Ansar Dine are ethnic Tuareg Islamic militants who want all of Mali to remain united and to transform it into a Muslim theocratic state run by Tuaregs. Their leaders are dissidents from the MNLA.

AQIM are ethnic Arab Islamic militants who want all of Mali to remain united and to transform it into a Muslim theocratic state run by Arabs.

MUJWA are ethnically black (the Mande peoples) Islamic militants who want all of Mali to remain united and to transform it into a Muslim theocratic state run by Mande people and to expel the Arabs. Their leaders are dissidents who left AQIM.

The government of Mali is a majority Mande secular republic allied with France and part of La Francophonie (somewhat like the UK's Commonwealth).

anyone noticed that ore Americans are being taken all over the world in these last couple of years, now if we had a non biased non corrupt media obama would be swept out of office with all this crap going on.

anyone noticed that ore Americans are being taken all over the world in these last couple of years, now if we had a non biased non corrupt media obama would be swept out of office with all this crap going on.

obama made a fool of himself and this country by appeasing to muslims America is looking weak and just think about it.

WE STILL DO NOT KNOW EHRE OBAMA WAS WHEN THE ATTACK HAPPENED IN LIBYA

Did he watch the attack live time in the sit room?

who gace that order to stand down?

This is months later and FRIGGING NOTHING FROM THE MEDIA, THE GOP AND THE WHITE HOUSE.

MUJWA and Ansar Dine have connections to one another and seem to work together sometimes.

What seems to happen is that when one of these groups conquer a town, they will fight anyone else who tries to take it, but they will sometimes ally themselves with another group that is fighting the government over a disputed territory.

I can see why Panetta asked the Pope to pray for him a few days ago. He’s not a bright man amd was a Clinton stooge, but I think he’s pretty pro-American. That’s why Bambi picked him...to hang him out to dry.

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